Gallbladder Sludge and Lithiasis in an Infant Born to a Morphine User Mother
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Vol. 10 (2) , 234-238
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005176-199002000-00015
Abstract
We report a 3-month-old boy with gallbladder sludge formation and lithiasis. The known associated factors causing cholelithiasis in infancy were not present. We postulate that maternal chronic use of morphine during pregnancy may result in biliary sludge formation in utero in the fetus with progression and manifestation of cholelithiasis at 3-months of age.Keywords
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